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mkwadee@diasp.eu
Khurram Wadee

It's a hot late #spring day and I was sitting the conservatory as #birds were flitting around the back #garden. Here's a verdant scene of the #flowering #potato #plants I took while waiting with a #telephoto lens for any #sparrows to show up.
Potato plants

One #HouseSparrow did visit the #birdfeeder and I got this nice profile. It almost looks like it's holding a pose for me.
Sparrow on bird feeder

Seconds later, it flew right up to within 3-4 m under the shade of a #rose #bush no doubt looking for aphids and I caught this rather contrasting, scary image of the same #bird as it might look to one of its tiny victims.
Close up of sparrow under a rose bush

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gander22h@diasp.org
Adam Hunt

I got a new #bird feeder recently and this one (right) is 100% #squirrel proof, in fact it is called the "Squiirel Buster Classic". If they jump on it their weight closes it and they get nothing, The house #sparrows, #chickadees and white breasted #nuthatches love it! The #cardinals don't seem to have figured it out yet, however. I put the old feeder up in a new spot (left) where the squirrels can easily get at it so they don't go hungry, but so far the sparrows have been working on emptying it instead, as can be seen in the photo.

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mkwadee@diasp.eu
Khurram Wadee

At lunchtime, there was plenty of #sunshine and #birds were visiting the #garden in steady waves.

#Sparrows and other smaller birds use the #BirdFeeder, sometimes occupying several of the perches simultaneously. But this one was solitary.
Sparrow on bird feeder

#Pigeons feed off the ground and are often seen at the base of the bird feeder. However, this one was walking along the garden #fence.
Pigeon on garden fence

Finally, here are the same #roses I photographed a few days ago except that this time they are in direct #sunlight rather than under grey skies.
Red roses

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ealex@pod.dapor.net
Alles voller

Eben fand ich auf der Truhe auf der Terrasse einen ganz jungen Spatz, dem es augenscheinlich nicht gut ging. Ich habe versucht, ihm ein wenig Honigwasser einzuflößen, aber er wollte nicht.
Habe ihn dann in den Garten zur Vogeltränke gebracht und in den Schatten gesetzt.

Als ich nach einer Weile nachschauen, war er nicht mehr da.
Ich nehme an, er ist vielleicht vor die Fensterscheibe geflogen und musste sich nur kurz berappeln, er war nämlich schon flugfähig.

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#Sparrows #Spatzen
#Nature #Nature
#Garden #Garten

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mkwadee@diasp.eu
Khurram Wadee

#Birds naturally tend to move rapidly around the area and so it is sometimes difficult to be able to record the various species passing by. I often see #starlings around but not often in the #garden. In this first #photograph, you can see three of them sharing a fence with two #sparrows and a mystery bird. These #pictures span no more than about three minutes of time.

Three species of birds on a fence

Here's more detail of the bird whose species I don't know along with its mate. Can anybody help identify it?

Pair of birds looking for a nest

A minute later this #Jay arrived and because it's a predator, the other birds soon vacated the area but you could hear them sounding alarms to others. You can see that its #feathers are ruffled and so I think it has recently been in some sort of altercation.

Jay on a fence

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